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by nthingtohide 2y ago
Humans not agreeing has more to do with the fact that humans are called upon to take decisions with imperfect information under time constraints. If each human could pause the state of the world and gather all information and then decide, t
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All of fiction is a distortion of sorts. Consider Wall-E movie fat people. The AI advancements shown in the movie should transitively imply that biotech, biomedical progress would be so high that we would have solved perfect health by then.
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US does the same thing with Cisco servers. (source : as per Glenn Greenwald tweet)
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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-locating-beliefs/ Is this helpful?
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Not only that if future AI distrusts humanity it is because history, literature and fiction is full of such scenarios and AI will learn those patterns and associated emotions from those texts. Humanity together will be responsible for creat
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The fact that people who are paid to predict future didn't predict China's unprecedented rise in EVs is all that you need to know how manipulated with lies our information ecosphere is. Our experts completely misjudged China and i
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China and Russia are ‘true friends tempered by fire’, Xi Jinping tells Kremlin aide The Chinese leader also calls for closer coordination as he meets security chief Sergei Shoigu amid thawing ties between Russia and the US https:/&#x2
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Do you think China will let Russia fail? China will not allow its ally to fail.
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Does it sound strange to anyone that during Iraq war there were many embedded journalists covering the war. I don't see that now in Russia-Ukraine war. What could be reasons?
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There are other places where people can gamble
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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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The other factor you are missing in your analysis of PE route is the number of musical chairs are limited. There can only be 1 taylor swift not millions. So the choice is not for everyone. Even if everyone made that choice, a million taylor
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Actually, your view is true even if there exists even just one person with your view. In reality what matters is the distribution of views. Furthermore, what matters is the distribution of views by the decision makers because those will be
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https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/research-publications/resbul... Conclusions and policy implications To return to our initial question: does stock market liquidity deteriorate when HFTs compete? The results suggest
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https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/research-publications/resbul... High-frequency traders (HFTs) are market participants that are characterised by the high speed with which they react to incoming news, the low invent
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All these HFT stuff reminds me of chinese event where people send each other gift money as a good will gesture. Revenue is high but no meaningful transaction has happened. The money is just being exchanged between the same top HFT firms. An
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I am not saying HFTs can't sell but there should be penalty for higher frequency. It means they have to craft algorithms which will take longer term view of stocks (and their fundamentals) rather than ignorance of other participants
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Can we have a different kind of stock market which forces participants to consider long term outcomes more? E.g. no HFT firm should be able to make a profit from such a stock market. Selling stocks earlier and often should result in a penal
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Another point in your favour is the problem space itself will become exponentially large. Imagine getting a requirement to synthesize a material with 40 properties rather than 1 or 2.
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Have you experimented with late interaction? https://jina.ai/news/what-is-colbert-and-late-interaction-an... http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2024/06/can-se... https:/&#x2F
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Ephemeral customised personalized apps are the future. Imagine you have to plan for wedding or big event. Just build an app for it. The app will fit like glove to your hand.
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I am only doubtful about the exponential part. I am hopeful that yes all fields will ultimately subsumed by AI.
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Can you share one or two anecdotes? I am curious.
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One idea of Yuval Noah Harari is AI, robotics, etc will make the normal citizen irrelevant in the global economy. The ultimate barometer is if governments require less soldiers, the game is up, nobody will even care about common citizen.
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If AI is the general purpose pattern recognition algorithm and real world has patterns then as long as data i.e. real world has juice, AI will do better. Recursive self improvement is included in the domain. The only constraint will be how
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Is there a physical law which will limit AI progress? I don't have a timeline in mind but I think that is the future.
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Petition to change "invisible hand" of Adam Smith to "invisible whip".
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These are the same reasons why developers first create an app for iOS. This is quite well known
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Wrt to premature optimization, in future, AI will write the most optimized for every general and obscure cases out of the box eking out every last blood of performance from any kind of hardware. This will usher in the era of "hypermatu
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I read a wikipedia article of a person who was very intelligent but also suffered from a mental illness. He told people around him that his next novel will be of exactly N number of words and it will end with the sentence P. I don't r

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